Sentences with phrase «small paintings seems»

Each of its six large and 12 small paintings seems to have been made in a matter of minutes, if not faster.

His small paintings seem assembled from strips of colored tape on an off - white ground, in slightly off - kilter and incomplete squares and diamonds.

The smaller paintings seem like cropped photographs, depicting awkward anatomical views of heads, torsos, and even hands.

The larger paintings seemed to contract and the smaller paintings seemed to expand when usually the opposite is true, and one small painting in particular was wildly popular — these are the kinds of things you learn from showing, that can't be gleaned from the studio alone.

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Housework is rewarding when it is finished, but it seems like every time a seemingly «small» thing like painting needs to occur, Murphy's Law explodes in front of you.

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It may have seemed like a small task, but to me decorating that nursery signified something so much bigger than paint colour and cute furniture.

He is referring to a famous painting by Charles Knight that seems to capture in midaction a fight between two of these creatures, small but terrifying predators with sicklelike claws.

Energize your small kitchen with a coat of fresh paint to the walls and cabinets, and consider soft neutrals or bold color combinations that will make your space seem larger and reflect your design style.

Sofia Coppola's exquisite second feature is filled with these kinds of small, beautifully acted scenes that, when taken together, paint a rich portrait of two like - minded souls who take solace in each other when the rest of their lives seem to be spinning out of control.

Toby Jones (The Painted Veil, Mrs. Henderson Presents) as Karl Rove and Jeffrey Wright (The Invasion, Casino Royale) as Colin Powell also look much smaller than their real - life counterparts, and more mannered, seeming like they would be more at home in an «SNL» skit than in a serious film about these public figures.

The test car's body panels didn't flex with fingertip pressure, the metallic - blue paint was evenly and neatly applied, and the workmanship, in general, seemed fine except for small details such as loose - fitting plastic inserts in the door handles.

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To say a show of about 30 of his smaller paintings dating from 1911 to 1955 is a «museum - quality» exhibition might seem a bit of a stretch.

Also included are a collection of small works on panel, that seem to quote from the complex non-linear narrative of Hackett's abstract paintings.

There is a small 2003 - 04 painting on stilts, which seems ready for a religious procession, although its vaguely flagstone patterning — another recurring motif — evokes Jasper Johns more strongly than a paraded saint.

SL: Some of those paintings seem to involve objects that were in the painting almost the same size they were in actuality, some of those early small ones.

For example, in Law of the Jungle (2017), the actors» names — Hattie McDaniel and Bill (Bojangles) Robinson are painted white and large, then wiped by hand, in the foreground, while the films Law of the Jungle, Midnight Shadow and Blood of Jesus, are in a smaller font in a light gray tone and blurred to a greater extent so it seems they are floating — as if into obscurity — in the background.

Highlighting the spatial depth, Fish often changes the importance of the foreground and background which results with unexpected spatial effects like in the painting Dog Days (1993) where the figure of the dog seems smaller than the watermelon pieces on the table in the foreground.

Conversely, I once saw a very small painting by Jake Berthot, a pocket - book - size picture that was a complex layering of different greys with some wonderful reds breaking through the field and also at the edges of the canvas — it seemed like I was looking at something almost infinite in its dimensions.

Similarly, Eric de Chassey, in the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition «Alex Katz: Small Paintings,» begins his essay by informing us that «Alex Katz is one of very few artists working today capable of creating works that can be reconciled with the world, without seeming anachronistic.»

They seem to dissolve while others appear to be very tight and some are small thunderstorms painted with a dark color and a flash.

«Within Dodge's large oil - on - canvas paintings, many smaller «paintings» seem to jostle together, making room for themselves within the greater composition.

A smaller Untitled (2015) measures in at only 97 x 89 cm, yet it is a painting that seems to suggest liminal states of being that recall early Barnett Newman or Mark Rothko.

All - over painting worked so hard to distinguish itself from decoration in no small part because it seemed anything but different.

Pearlstein knows that nudes painted exactly on the scale of life tend to seem smaller than they actually are, and he wants to call our attention to the importance of humanity, and with this of humane values, within a complicated cosmos.

Among the least assuming, yet most challenging paintings is «Catalyst III,» from 1985, a small work of anodized aluminum, nearly two feet square, that seems almost machine - made.

The eight small paintings in Caleb Considine's exhibition «Cancelled» might at first have seemed a bit lost in the gallery's spacious rooms, but they gradually made their presence felt.

In another, smaller painting from the same show, the crowned lion seems to disport itself on a beach, framed above and below by bands of green and red.

In the San Francisco Chronicle Kenneth Baker reports that Bay Area painter John Wood has the rare knack of making small, busy abstract paintings seem big.

Presenting images that seem to have been shaken - spinning smaller frag - ments of seemingly cartoon mouths, teeth, eyes and silhouettes -, the paintings capture a cartoon whirlwind of parts and portions as they are about to come into existence.

Yet the... read more... «John Wood: Making small, busy abstract paintings seem big»

They're small to medium - sized, but charged with energy and humor, reflecting the artist's interest in interchangeability «between painting and sculpture, front and back, an object and its surroundings... moments of seeming flatness... negative space, the pieces» irregular shapes... to create a disoriented object.»

Much more persuasive are the quieter, smaller - scale paintings by Dupuy - Spencer or Aliza Nisenbaum in which the artist seems to have forged a genuine bond with her very specific subjects instead of treating identity as an abstract category.

Andrew Masullo's idiosyncratic, small, colorful abstract paintings (a sort of Mary Heilmann meets Thomas Nozkowski) installed playfully not following a center line seem to be looking back to the same art historical moment in the early 19th century as Bess.

The London exhibition of work by Paul Klee in 1945 seems to have had a big impact, with Pasmore's first 1948/9 abstract works of small coloured triangles and squares looking very similar to Klee's painting from two decades before.

Anyway, charmingly, it doesn't seem to have helped, as the uncharacteristically small painting exhibits the same gauche over-painting as all the others.

In a recently rebuilt garage next to their house, using paint and collaged fabrics, Professor Barbara Campbell Thomas crafts very small paintings that seem enormous in the jpeg format.

Last month's letter concerning the state of abstraction in England makes Jonathan Lasker's small paintings on paper at Timothy Taylor and Hauser and Wirth's exhibition of Joan Mitchell's paintings from 1961 - 62 seem like standout shows of the summer.

Roberta Smith: Josephine Halvorson's small realist paintings seem to have it both ways.

If you paint it white, it seems small and purist.

In Matteo Massagrande's paintings, there is an unsettling serenity in compositions that pair architectural interiors with small glimpses of natural settings that seem boundless and just beyond view.

To my thinking, it seems something is either haphazard or it's mimicked to look that way, which then corrupts the true meaning of the word.It would be better to say, «A grouping of small stretched paintings that appropriate haphazard stretching techniques from sophomore painting class.»

Although individual images of her paintings aren't available, Michaela Eichwald presented two dark abstractions (one can be seen on the back wall above) and an anxious, small - scale portrait (hung above eye level) that seemed unsure, edgy, and heartfelt.

The majority of the pieces selected this year are from New York galleries: Brie Ruais» stunning 2017 ceramic wall work, «Broken Ground Red,» from Albertz Benda; «Condition,» a small 2018 sculpture by Matthew Ronay from Casey Kaplan seems to embrace both science and art; Shara Hughes» 2018 painting, «Gusto,» is from Rachel Uffner Gallery.

«Garden Party» blends four distinct areas of Gray's newest work — re-interpretations of Flemish still lifes, grip tape collages, large abstract «spectrum» paintings, and smaller «snapshots» of vases, horses, and sculptural busts that seem excerpted from his larger works — to cohesively to present a larger picture of his experimentation with traditional subjects in art history through contemporary media and techniques.

Sy Hakim's large landscape painting, Formations — Daylight, describes a beautiful yet challenging world, the small figure seems huddled against the power of the landscape, the outcroppings hang high above his head, a daunting climb but a great view from the top.

Keith Haring, whose less recognizable works seem to be doing well at auction lately, had a small bidding war break out over a painted plaster penis, which scaled past its $ 12,000 estimate to take in $ 112,500.

While at first glance Lin seems to prefer the grand gesture, on careful inspection he rewards the viewer with more subtle, measured experiences like small paintings on paper that recall 20th century abstraction by artists including Miro, Kandinsky, Gorky, and Gottlieb.

Jutta Koether contributes a small, shiny Minimalist triangle and a large, moody canvas that riffs on Neo-Expressionism; both black, they seem to honor the opposite poles of postwar German painting, Blinky Palermo and Anselm Kiefer.